All ticket vending machines can be set to English by pressing the British flag on the screen. If you fear you might need assistance buying a ticket, E-Mail your name and mobile phone number to X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de in advance.

by airplane:

nearest Airport is Stuttgart (STR) - continue to shackspace using the subway and tram as suggested here - you will need to buy a separate ticket from a DB/VVS ticket vending machine for the subway/tram part of the ride.

international travellers might be able to get cheaper/better flights to Frankfurt (FRA) - continue to shackspace using the train, bus, and tram as suggested here - holders of DeutscheBahn BahnCards and buyers of non-rebated tickets may get the bus/tram part of the ride for free (please check if your ticket says “Stuttgart + City” somewhere in the destination field), everyone else will need to buy a separate ticket from a DB/VVS ticket vending machine for the subway/tram part of the ride.

All ticket vending machines can be set to English by pressing the British flag on the screen. If you fear you might need assistance buying a ticket, E-Mail your name and mobile phone number to X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de in advance.

Core team member availability

The following core team members have indicated their availability for the entire weekend:

Michael DePaulo (via Skype/Hangouts, due to lack of funding for the flight)

Mihai Moldovan (room reserved Thu-Sun) - late arrival on Thu, single room at hostel - separate toilet/shower (paying for the delta himself delta covered by CFD.direct's original sponsorship, as Plattsalat charged us only approx. 1/3rd of the expected dinner ingredient costs)

Stefan Baur - will most likely be shuttling back and forth, so doesn't need a room

The following core team members have indicated partial availability for this weekend:

Heinz-M. Graesing (room reserved Sat-Sun room was used by Stefan Sat-Sun as Heinz spontaneously needed to return home for the night) - arrival around 15:00-16:00 on Saturday, single room at hostel - sponsored stay

Sponsoring

As always, we are open to sponsorships, and two have already found their way to us.

CFD.direct, who also co-sponsored our cloud-based macOS build servers - have agreed to sponsor this event with 500 EUR (plus VAT), like they already did last year. Their donation will be used for the lodging and dining costs of some participants.

Plattsalat West is offering us the same rebates usually only available to their members, when shopping there for our Saturday lunch or dinner.

Thinking of becoming a sponsor as well? Let us know! The more, the merrier!
Of course, all sponsors will be named on our sponsorship wiki page, unless they wish to remain anonymous.

It is a 24 minute walk (or 11 minute tram ride) between the event location and the Aparthotel Wangener Landhaus, as you can seehere

For those of you that signed up for accommodation, the following rules are part of the deal:

Terms and Conditions

If you become sick, then please stay at home. Let us know ASAP so we can cancel your reservation/reassign your room.

If you've had recent contact with someone that has some contagious disease, and you are not 100% sure that you're immune - please, stay at home as well, and let us know ASAP so we can cancel your reservation/reassign your room.

If you know that someone has a contagious disease, and you've signed up for our event, please do not seek physical contact with that person before the event. If you have anything that needs to be discussed because you need it for the event, use e-mail, phone calls, whatever, but don't visit each other, the reason being rule #2.

If you cancel your reservation, it may mean we still have to charge you (exact terms and conditions depend on the hostel/hotel), if we cannot fill your spot with someone else. Of course, we will do our best to avoid this.

If you have any dietary requirements (vegetarian, vegan, no pork, no alcohol, …), please let us know when you sign up so we can prepare everything in advance. Same goes for any food allergies or other medical conditions that we should know of.

The golden rule of previous X2Go: The Gathering events is also still in effect: Don't be a dick.

Taking part in the event means that while you are in the meeting room assigned to us, you are OK with being photographed, recorded (audio and/or video), and/or livestreamed, with the intent of making this material available to the general public. It also means you agree not to take pictures, record audio and/or video, nor run a livestream outside our meeting room (shackspace has many other rooms that you may visit during your stay), unless everyone that can be seen or heard has given you permission to do so.

shackspace Opening Hours

Note that these times are not yet fully confirmed - we're working on it.

Windows Client improvements/bugfixes - esp. when session disconnects due to timeout, high CPU load and crash on close #1077

Mike#1, Mihai?

Seal Mascot Theme for Firefox/Thunderbird - could use a “dark theme” mode

Heinz

General Bugsquashing/Triaging

Everyone

skimming over X2Go-user and checking what needs to be turned into a bug

Everyone

ORCA e.V. annual meeting

This is the annual meeting (“Jahreshauptversammlung”) of ORCA e.V., a German public-benefit nonprofit association

ORCA

stands for Open Remote Computing Association

has been founded at X2Go: The Gathering 2017

includes members of several open remote computing projects, like Arctica and FreeRDP, not only X2Go

Donations to ORCA are tax-deductible in Germany (and maybe in other countries as well)

To remain recognized as a public-benefit nonprofit association by the tax authorities, certain rules have to be followed, one of them is that we need to have these meetings about once a year.

As X2Go: The Gathering is an event where the majority of ORCA members tends to take part in, it makes sense to hold the required annual meeting as part of the X2Go: The Gathering event. Also, as these events are open to the general public, doing so might attract potential new members.

The meeting will take place on Sunday, 10:00-12:00 CET. Current members have been informed of this date in advance.